Mr R Carlton Seitz

Jonathan Fuller Jr. (1719-1777) of Westminster, Vermont Mr R Carlton Seitz

Jonathan Fuller Jr. was a Vermont farmer who settled in Westminster before 1770. He held land in Westminster by 1772 and was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He died in the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 and left a number of heirs. He was a descendant of Captain Matthew Fuller, the son of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower. His son, Joseph Fuller Sr., took part in the historic Westminster Massacre of 1775. Among the descendants of Jonathan Fuller Jr. are John Eliakim Weeks Governor of Vermont, Walker Evans the iconic American photographer and Leon Forest Douglass, the inventor of the spring-wound Victrola, the color cinema graph known as Technicolor and numerous other inventions. Other allied families are Allen, Barrows, Bennett, Cook, Crook, Douglass, Haley, Howland, Hakes, Ingalls, Janes (Jaynes), Lawrence, Lette, Tilley, Tuthill (Tuttle) Whipple, Wood and Weeks. Much of the author's work is original research with numerous source citations and documentation. Additional research on the Whipple family of Brattleboro, VT and the ancestry of Leon Forest Douglass is included.